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Peer reviewedEsbensen, Finn-Aage; Miller, Michelle Hughes; Taylor, Terrance J.; He, Ni; Freng, Adrienne – Evaluation Review, 1999
Uses pretest data collected with passive parental consent for 2,496 middle school students to examine demographic, attitudinal, and behavioral differences between students for whom active parental consent was provided in later phases of the research and those for whom active consent was not provided. Results show the detrimental effects of…
Descriptors: Attrition (Research Studies), Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Demography
Peer reviewedSussman, Steve; Stacy, Alan W. – Evaluation Review, 1994
The following methods of estimating school-level experimentation with drugs by adolescents at 20 California continuation high schools are compared: (1) self-reports; (2) prevalence estimates from students; (3) prevalence estimates from school staff; (4) naturalistic observation; and (5) refuse (garbage) analysis. Advantages of refuse analysis are…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Continuation Students, Drinking, Estimation (Mathematics)
